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Seeking The Best Performance per Watt for [email protected]

We tested several video cards to see which one provides the best performance/watt ratio in order for you to get a high score at [email protected] and, at the same time, not going bankrupt with the increase in your electricity bill.

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Our High-Performance Setup

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Our High-Performance Setup
  • 3. Consumption Analysis
  • 4. Performance Analysis
  • 5. Which Video Card is The Best?
  • 6. Fine Tuning our Systems
  • 7. Conclusions

Below you can see all systems we built to run [email protected] Please see previous page for a detailed explanation on consumption, cost and performance/score.

System # CPU Video Card Motherboard Memory HDD Power Supply
1 Core 2 Extreme QX 9650 (3 GHz) None MSI G31M3-F 2 GB DDR2-800 Kingston KVR800D2N6/1GB 160 GB Antec EarthWatts 500 W
2 Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4 GHz) XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R 4 GB DDR2-800 OCZ 200 GB PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610
3 Phenom 9600 GeForce 9800 GT 1 GB Sapphire PI-AM2RS780G 2 GB DDR2-800 Kingston KVR800D2N6/1GB 500 GB Zalma
n ZM600-HP
4 Phenom 9700 Radeon HD 4870Radeon HD 4850 ASUS M3A32-MVP 2 GB DDR2-800 Kingston KVR800D2N6/1GB 500 GB OCZ ProXstream 1,000 W
5 Core 2 Extreme QX 9770 (3.2 GHz) GeForce GTX 280GeForce 8800 GTGeForce 8800 GT EVGA nForce 790i Ultra 2 GB DDR3-2000 500 GB OCZ EliteXstream 1,000 W
6 Playstation 3          

Now we are going to do a detailed analysis of our systems.

Continue: Consumption Analysis

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